Kevin

I’m glad to hear you’re okay, @russell. I’m incredibly impressed by your level of composure and capacity for grace given what you went through too. Not even the physical aspects, but the sense of betrayal from a friend.

I know it had been asked before, but given what happened tonight, it’s still relevant. Why did Mike want to sign up with Briarberg? Right now it looks like he’s just going around asking the same questions we’ve heard from them before Not that kidnapping and torturing a friend was worth it before, but it really isn’t worth it to just go be another…[Read more]

A few days ago Mike brought up that Morgan needed to cut it out with the IG/OOG bullshit or something similar. That would have been after sending Mason his resume, but prior to today’s interview. Given Mike’s stance a few days ago, where the fuck does that leave him now? If he’s not subscribing to any IG/OOG distinctions, that’s nerve-racking…

“In chaos, there is fertility,” seems to be a major touch point for most of the groups we’ve encountered. In sowing chaos, it allows them to do their work from behind the dust they’ve kicked up. While we scramble through it, they’re quietly working towards their own ends. As we become used to the chaos, they find new types to unleash. Each one…[Read more]

Mine was this one: https://thelustexperience.com/forums/topic/9-12-instagram-from-mason/#post-24561

While the post was about Mason, it can also be read and applied to Mike given what happened last night. Still not totally sold on it being anything but a glitch, but a strange coincidence with this post for sure.

@mkarrett @remrelganaps I had the same thing happen to me (and I assume one is the same post, did you get an email for it too @wanda102). I also received a second notification about a post that @nothenrygale had tagged me in.

At the time I figured it was just some forum weirdness, but now, who knows? Can you tell if your post was edited at all Brad?

The piece is Consciousness of Shock by Victor Brauner.

Some additional info from the Guggenheim website:
A symbolic struggle is expressed between the human and bird halves of the hybrid form in Consciousness of Shock, in which Victor Brauner portrays a complex boat-shaped figure in the course of battling for control of itself. Drawn in the…[Read more]

As a matter of fact, I do.

@meghanmayhem Care to share with the class? Or at least encourage Morgan to do so?

(If it was something beyond just that Sarah had been located.)

“I’m growing quite bored of these conversations with you as well, Addison. It’s like Joyce says. ‘Life often sucks. Kick it in the dick and make it hate itself right back.’ Addison.”
What do you mean “Like Joyce says?”

On top of the present tense, this is even weirder because…

THEN. Morgan went on periscope and thanked me for helping the BOS tonight. Which I did the biggest eye roll of my life to. The only information he could have gotten was Andy’s dad’s address. Which is easily found- also I already sent the letter.

I officially hate the BOS. This isn’t being clever. This is USING people. This isn’t trust, this is…[Read more]

@kortneydarling Periscoped her meeting with Andy.

Keep coming back to that phrase from so long ago now that keeps coming back: “When they stop believing in you, you’ll know it’s begun.” (Paraphrased slightly because it’s late).

I hope Morgan knows who he can keep believing in.

Describing all of us as mice seems fitting. We’re all just scrambling around this maze. We’ve been led to believe there’s a way out and that it was constructed by certain people, but maybe that’s all wrong. I’ve got to believe there’s an actual way out though, maybe if we start chewing through the walls.

Fun interplay between the quote and the painting. You can be offered temptations and either control yourself with them or give in, and in essence, give control over to someone else.

Yesterday’s and today’s have also had major elements cropped out of them, but not like we were seeing before. These ones are still identifiable. There are just…[Read more]

The image and it’s title do hint towards a rivalry between OSDM and Briarberg. The quote @coryphella posted adds more evidence that they could be the same thing. The full painting with the frame even suggests that it all could be performance, but even if it was a performance we’ve been told that they’re using lies to mask the truth.

Noah’s quote…[Read more]

@chelsea We heard that specific phrase at the iConfidant meet and greet too. So @russell, you’re not actually off topic. Sacrifice was also mentioned in the Encroaching Dark email.

She asked if I was sleeping better or worse than usual, if I’ve had any changes in my thought patterns or behavior, if I found myself identifying any more or less with the attitudes and beliefs of those around me, and if I found myself more connected to my immediate environment.

This is the same vein as some questions Briarberg has asked b…[Read more]

There are a lot of strange OSDM connections there. The reference to an emotional index, which we’ve only ever seen the Email Bros talk about, or heavily speculated with the EI reference. The idea that Sabrina may have given Mason information, which what?! Along with the line about appreciated sacrifice, so far OSDM has been the only one to…[Read more]

Moving some stuff over from Slack:

Groups that have been pretty silent are BOS, Briarberg (sort of. Mason has been active, but don’t know where he ties in with them), and OSDM leadership

Alternative interpretation of the quote: Someone else is doing the silencing and preventing people from speaking out. In that case, the silence is still a lie.…[Read more]

@coryphella Actions was probably the wrong word there. I was thinking more about how they posed as a group researching ethics in immersive theatre and then had a meeting where a board member was present and claimed to be about deprogramming cult members. They also don’t seem to have a problem Mason’s behavior, ranging from strange or creepy phone…[Read more]